Marionette Studio AlternativesAnimation Makers and other similar apps like Marionette Studio

Marionette Studio is described as 'Great software, powerful, easy and very intuitive to create 2D animations, characters for video games and more' and is a Animation Maker in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Marionette Studio for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best Marionette Studio alternative is Synfig Studio, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Marionette Studio are Inochi Creator, enve, Expressive Animator and Spine.

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  1. Synfig Studio icon
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    Synfig is a free and open-source, industrial-strength, vector-based 2D animation app designed for producing feature-film animations.

    59 Synfig Studio alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
    • Synfig Studio is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Marionette Studio.

    • Synfig Studio is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Marionette Studio.

    • Synfig Studio is Free and Open SourceMarionette Studio is Paid and Proprietary
  2. Inochi Creator icon
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    Inochi creator is a framework for realtime 2D puppet animation. On this site you can find the reference implementation as well as the official tooling for creating and using Inochi2D puppets for VTubing.

    10 Inochi Creator alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • itch.io
     
  3. enve icon
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    Enve is a free and open-source 2D animation app. It can create both vector and raster animations and even use sound and video files. It has been created with flexibility and expandability in mind.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    The premier editor for SVG animations. Create interactive SVG animations that run anywhere without plugins, players, or JavaScript code embedded.

    77 Expressive Animator alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
    • Expressive Animator is the most popular commercial alternative to Marionette Studio.

    • Expressive Animator is Paid and ProprietaryMarionette Studio is also Paid and Proprietary
    • Expressive Animator is LightweightMarionette Studio is not according to our users
  5. Spine icon
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    Spine is 2D animation software designed specifically for software and game development. Animators, artists and programmers unite to bring your games alive.

    16 Spine alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. AnimeEffects icon
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    AnimeEffects is a 2D keyframe animation tool based on deformation of polygon meshes. You can easily operate, quickly shape your idea, and remake at any time if you have changed your mind.

    11 AnimeEffects alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Live2D Cubism icon
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    Live2D is the world's first drawing technology to enable 3D rendering of 2D images. This technology supports a variety of portable consoles and smartphones, and Live2D is already being utilized for games that take advantage of the unique characteristics of hand drawn artwork.

    12 Live2D Cubism alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Unity
     
  8. Trangram icon
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    Trangram is a free one-stop platform to create, animate and share motion graphics.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • Trangram is the most popular Web-based alternative to Marionette Studio.

    • Trangram is Free and ProprietaryMarionette Studio is Paid and Proprietary
  9. Jpixel icon
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    JPixel is an editor for making pixel art animations and tilesets.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  10. Creature icon
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    This software is used to create fluid and natural animation to 2D graphics, easily allowing the user to use secondary animation to make it look more natural.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  11. Spriter icon
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    Spriter : an intuitive 2D animation tool for video game makers.

    Spriter enables the “modular” method of animating where, instead of each frame being a single complete image, it is constructed from many small, re- useable images (such as body parts). Each of these images that ar.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  12. Hover.css icon
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    A collection of CSS3 powered hover effects to be applied to links, buttons, logos, SVG, featured images and so on. Easily apply to your own elements, modify or just use for inspiration. Available in CSS, Sass, and LESS.

    15 Hover.css alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
    • Hover.css is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Marionette Studio.

    • Hover.css is Free and Open SourceMarionette Studio is Paid and Proprietary
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